Hans Theessink

Austria-based acoustic and electrical folk musician and bluesman brings a freshness of appreciation towards the American blues idiom, be it classic blues through the ’20s and ’30s or even more modern metropolitan blues from Chicago through the ’50s and ’60s. Theessink’s discography greater than 20 albums — all released in European countries — contains his fresh assumes tracks by Chuck Berry, John Fogerty, and Jimmy Cliff in addition to even more familiar blues fare by Rufus Thomas, Willie Dixon, Leadbelly, and also nation icon Hank Williams. Apart from performing blues, nation, and pioneering rock and roll & roll tracks well, he also contains gospel tunes in lots of of his concert events and on his albums. Theessink started playing electric guitar in his teenagers, and by the middle-’60s he was section of a skiffle group. Skiffle music was very popular in Ireland and Britain and other areas of European countries in those days, but once he noticed Big Costs Broonzy perform on Radio Luxembourg, he previously a revelation. He previously never heard your guitar performed so well by simply one person, so that it opened up his eye to the options that blues and blues-based musics can offer. He produced a splash around the U.S. folk event circuit in the past due ’80s, and Chicago-based Soaring Fish Records released his American debut, Baby Really wants to Boogie (1987), which Theessink later on re-released by himself label. A large section of Theessink’s charm like a performer and documenting artist is usually his method of cover songs. Instead of cover a Willie Dixon or Robert Johnson track to appear to be the original designer might, Theessink requires a vintage gospel regular like “Will the Group Become Unbroken,” polishes it up, and helps it be sparkle in his personal way. His initial songs supply an outsider’s perspective on locations and things round the South that way too many People in america neglect. Among Theessink’s many good albums will be the aforementioned Baby Really wants to Boogie, Hard Street Blues (1995), Trip On (1997), Bridges (2004), Tunes from your Southland (2004), Sluggish Teach (2007), Visions (2008), Delta Period (2012), the second option which was a cooperation with Ry Cooder and Terry Evans, as well as the 2015 concert LP Accurate & Blue. Many of these albums had been released by himself Blue Groove Information label, and could be difficult to acquire in U.S. record shops, even ones focusing on jazz and blues. Theessink is situated in Vienna, Austria when he’s not really on the highway, and he is constantly on the tour regularly around European countries, Australia, and New Zealand. He gets back again to the U.S. every several years to execute at folk and blues celebrations and clubs.